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Re: emacs-dynamic-module in Emacs Git?
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Stefan Monnier |
Subject: |
Re: emacs-dynamic-module in Emacs Git? |
Date: |
Mon, 01 Dec 2014 22:29:12 -0500 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/25.0.50 (gnu/linux) |
> From the Emacs core side, it's not fun to have to support internal
> details for years because modules are using them.
Indeed. At first, I'll expect this API will get broken on a
regular basis. Then it will stabilize such that old modules can still
be used in slightly more recent Emacsen. But I don't expect to ever aim
for the same kind of backward compatibility we expect for Elisp packages.
IOW, "backward compatibility with existing dynamic modules" will be
desirable but not "top priority".
> For instance, that kind of deep integration is very likely to be
> a blocker for concurrent threads of execution in the core.
The alternative (which currently looks more reasonable) is that the
introduction of concurrency will simply break many/most existing
dynamic modules.
Stefan
- Re: emacs-dynamic-module in Emacs Git?, (continued)
- Re: emacs-dynamic-module in Emacs Git?, Ted Zlatanov, 2014/12/02
- Re: emacs-dynamic-module in Emacs Git?, Aurélien Aptel, 2014/12/04
- Re: emacs-dynamic-module in Emacs Git?, Ted Zlatanov, 2014/12/04
- Re: emacs-dynamic-module in Emacs Git?, Ivan Andrus, 2014/12/04
- Re: emacs-dynamic-module in Emacs Git?, Ted Zlatanov, 2014/12/09
- Re: emacs-dynamic-module in Emacs Git?, Aurélien Aptel, 2014/12/11
- Re: emacs-dynamic-module in Emacs Git?, Ted Zlatanov, 2014/12/11
- Re: emacs-dynamic-module in Emacs Git?, Stefan Monnier, 2014/12/01
- Re: emacs-dynamic-module in Emacs Git?, Stephen Leake, 2014/12/01
- Re: emacs-dynamic-module in Emacs Git?, Ted Zlatanov, 2014/12/01
- Re: emacs-dynamic-module in Emacs Git?,
Stefan Monnier <=
Re: emacs-dynamic-module in Emacs Git?, Eli Zaretskii, 2014/12/01
Re: emacs-dynamic-module in Emacs Git?, Aurélien Aptel, 2014/12/01
- Re: emacs-dynamic-module in Emacs Git?, Eli Zaretskii, 2014/12/01
- Re: emacs-dynamic-module in Emacs Git?, Stephen Leake, 2014/12/01
- Re: emacs-dynamic-module in Emacs Git?, Stefan Monnier, 2014/12/01
- Re: emacs-dynamic-module in Emacs Git?, Stephen Leake, 2014/12/03
- Re: emacs-dynamic-module in Emacs Git?, Stefan Monnier, 2014/12/03
- Re: emacs-dynamic-module in Emacs Git?, Eli Zaretskii, 2014/12/03
Re: emacs-dynamic-module in Emacs Git?, Eli Zaretskii, 2014/12/01
Re: emacs-dynamic-module in Emacs Git?, Steinar Bang, 2014/12/02